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Dynamics of off-farm employment in Sub-Saharan Africa : a gender perspective
Van den Broeck, Goedele; Kilic, Talip - 2018
-farm employment and continued employment; and conducts the analysis by gender and rural/urban location. A significant share of the …-farm enterprises being more common in Nigeria and Tanzania. The population weighted cross-country gender difference in off …-farm employment and continued employment are country- and gender-specific, with demographic factors, occurrence of shocks, and job …
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"She helps me all the time" : underestimating women's economic engagement in rural Honduras
Muller, Miriam; Sousa, Liliana D. - 2020
This study aims to understand women's engagement in economic activities in rural Honduras and why these activities may not be accurately reflected in official statistics. The study finds that women underreport their engagement in economic activities, including production for own consumption,...
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Labor productivity and employment gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa
McCullough, Ellen B. - 2015
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Gender and rural non-farm entrepreneurship
Rijkers, Bob; Costa, Rita - 2012
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Improving the measurement of rural women's employment : global momentum and survey research priorities
Koolwa, Gayatri - 2019
Rural economies are in transition around the world; in many countries, improved technology and linkages across sectors have expanded access to markets and accelerated production for some farmers. At the same time, rural areas globally are facing a growing base of landless and smallholder farmers,...
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Who is employed? : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa on redefining employment
Gaddis, Isis; Oseni, Gbemisola; Palacios Lopez, Amparo; … - 2020
The 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (in 2013) redefined labor statistics standards. A major change was to narrow the definition of employment to work for pay or profit. By the revised standards, farming that is only or mainly intended for own use is no longer considered...
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Do land market restrictions hinder structural change in a rural economy? : evidence from Sri Lanka
Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2015
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What explains Latin America's low share of industrial employment?
Sinha, Rishabh - 2019
This paper investigates the relative importance of different channels in explaining the low share of industrial employment in Latin America relative to the economies that employ a large share of the workforce in industry. Differences in domestic final consumption shares play a pivotal role and...
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School quality, labor markets and human capital investments : long-term impacts of an early stage education intervention in the Philippines
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Liu, Yanyan - 2012
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The labor market, education and armed conflict in Tajikistan
Shemyakina, Olga N. - 2011
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